On Saturday 07 October 2006 00:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (note dmesg follows message) > > Out of 12 partitions in my setup 8 are reiserfs. During bootup I see > them go by being checked, but always the last one /dev/hda11 fails > with this message: > > fsck could not repair all errors .... > > And drops me into the repair shell. > > This has happened over several kernels and for mnths. > I finally just took to C-d to finish booting. This is after stopping > to reiserfsck /dev/hda11 many times. It always passes with no error > messages. > > Oddly, the drive is always mounted once boot is complete (I mean even > when I just press Ctrl-d to by-pass fixing.) And no problems > read/write to it occur. > > I finally reformatted /dev/hda11 to ext3. Now the last reiserfs > partition that shows up in boot messages is /dev/hda9 and it fails the > same way. > > These facts lead me to believe it isn't really a reiserfs failure at > all but something earlier that just shows up at that point, but I > cannot fathom out what.
Have you checked the output of fdisk to make sure the partition does not overlap with another? fdisk -l /dev/hda and check that no 2 partitions are using the same disk blocks. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro -- [email protected] mailing list
